Simon Travaglia Quotes

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Simon Travaglia

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Religion

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Help
  • Control
  • Support

• When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Face

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

  

  Little Richard
  • Boom
  • Loom
  • Bop

• In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Magician

• The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Barriers

• Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Sometimes
  • Thought
  • Something

• To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Teach

• Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Enjoy
  • Melody

• It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: “pure consciousness.”

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Consciousness
  • Layers

• When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Moon
  • Souls
  • Barrier

• My priorities are still competing and achieving at the highest level, certainly. But to take a deep breath, or to try to enjoy the company of those around me, that's something that I'm trying to be aware of as much as possible.

  

  Nathan Adrian
  • Enjoy
  • Priorities
  • Achieving

• Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Needs

• Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Growth

• The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Denial
  • Achieving
  • Barrier